The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-01
FARM AND GARDEN.
RIPE EARLY POTATOES,


When early potatoes have fully rip.
ened they should DO dug, II left In the
ground and wet spell comes on, as it
is apt to now, they will begin to grow
and soon become worthless for cooking
or other uses.
KEEPING GOOD STOCK.
More farmers fail from attempting
too much in stock without sufficient
experience than from any other one
cause. They maintain altogether too
many animals of poor to medium quail
ity. 1t is better to have only ono good
COW than to have two or three medium
ones The one animal will leave the
farmer a chance to devote his time and
lard to some more profitable purpose,
while the man ovcrstockcd with poor
animals finds that they absorb and eat
everything he grows.
WEED SEEDS IN SCREENINGS
In cleaning up grain for market If
the work is done properly there will
be nothing left in the screenings but
The seeds of weeds. These should lie
burned. Even if there are few I'M
perfect grains among the screenings,
farmers cannot afford to feed the whole
to stock, and thus get weed seeds into
their manure heaps. Screenings are
mostly given to poultry. This is an
other cause OF loss, for they will eat
many weed seeds which are injurious,
and often stop them from laying at
this season.
suNFLowER SEED FOR CHICKEN FEED.
In the Fall. when sunilowcrs ripen
their seed, it requires some practice
and perhaps some starvation to make
fowls eat it. But after becoming used
to this new diet. and especially in cold
weather fowls are very fond of it. The
seed of sunflowcrs has much oil in it.
which makes il better feed for cold
weather. BY this time too the acrid
juices Of the green stalk have evaporat.
cd. Ii is better therefore TO put the
sunflowcr heads away for winter use,
nothing doubling that they will be
wanted.
SENSE OF SMELL IN INSECTS.
1t is an undoubtcd fact that most
noxious insects are guided by their
'cnsc OF smell to the places proper for
them to feed or depos their eggs. 1t
IS to this popularity that many
odorifcrous substances owe their
supposed repellant powers. The insect
is not. strictly speaking, repealed, but
ibo stronger foreign odor DISCUSSES
That of its proper food and therefore it
cannot find it. Thus amy cheap but
,lrong-smcling substance may check
insects ravagcs just as eflicaciously
rs something much more expensive.
SHELTER FOR COWS FROM COLD.
1t may seem to some strange TO
advise giving some shelter to cows at
night thus early in the season. In clear
weather even in July and August COWS
IN fields will get under trees to lie down.
30 that there may be less radiation OF
their own warmth into space. II any
one tries sleeping ont OF doors in
summer. rs campers sometimes do, he
will be apt to feel chilly sensation
.owards morning. Of course when
,old storms prevail, as they are liable
TO from now onward, the necessity for
shelter is greatly increased.
SWEET AND SOUR CREAM.
Uniformity in cream Is one secret of
getting large amount OF butter from
t. This is one of the great advantages
If the creamery system which, in
Manageable weather, it is difficult to get
without it, If sweet and sour cream
arc mixed together nearly all the sweet
cream goes into the buttermlk. In
some cases where the amount OF butter
was not nearly what 1t ought to be,
farmers wives have churned the butter
milk and got enough more butter to pay
for the oytra labor. But creamery
would cost tile, and in many places
pay itselfin one season by the increased
outer product
TIME TO CUT CORN.
Owing to the great amount OF heat
he past Summer much corn will be
ready to cut early. Some farmers have
,habit of leaving corn just as long as
hey safely can. and rs everybody is
liable to mako a wrong guess, they
generally have more or less corn cut
oy frost This is n serious misfortune